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[gblues]

Don't worry, we're good.

Fake as shit.

Notice that pre-cut, some pieces are taller than others. After the switch (just before it loops), all the pieces are the same size.

 

[BHZ Mayor]

Fuck this lame earth.

 

[Septimius]

Time to terraform.

"The Mars bar:
Now with real Mars in it"

Fake as shit.

Notice that pre-cut, some pieces are taller than others. After the switch (just before it loops), all the pieces are the same size.

Nothing fake. It's actually at the looping point that the pieces are incorrect size. Just enough to leave out one piece. It's just math.

 

[Fury Sense]

It's not like cocoa grows on trees guys.

 

[CodonAUG]

Chocolate prices will increase to the point that we can grow it in America using titanic greenhouses. It will be glorious.

 

[MWS Natural]

They will develop synthetic chocolate before this happens.

 

[DarkFlow]

Yeah, Hershey's has been using milk chocolate for decades that is processed through a special "trade secret". No one really knows what it is but there's some theories from experts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hershey_bar

The Hershey Process milk chocolate used in these bars is cheaper to make than other types of chocolate as it is less sensitive to the freshness of the milk. The process was developed by Milton Hershey and was the first mass-produced chocolate in the United States. As a result, the Hershey flavor is widely recognized in the United States and Canada, but less so internationally, in particular in areas where European chocolates are more widely available. The process is a trade secret, but experts speculate that the milk is partially lipolyzed, producing butyric acid, which stabilizes the milk from further fermentation. This compound gives the product a particular sour, "tangy" taste, to which the US public has become accustomed, to the point that other manufacturers often add butyric acid to their milk chocolates.[1] The American bar's taste profile was not as popular with the Canadian public, leading Hershey to introduce a reformulated Canadian bar in 1983.[2] The company describes the revised Canadian formulation as a "creamier, smoother, lighter coloured and milder flavoured product more suitable to Canadian taste".

I feel cheated now as a American. Thanks for ruining my taste buds Hershey!

 

[Omni]

Time to start hoarding.

It'll still be good in 10 years, right? Yeah..

 

[Fox Mulder]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hershey_bar


I feel cheated now as a American. Thanks for ruining my taste buds Hershey!

the candy swap opened my eyes to proper chocolate from europe. Of course the US has access to quality chocolate, but it's sold as more expensive holiday items or niche products instead of what's in gas stations and vending machines.

 

[HomerSimpson-Man]

Well damn, so this is how the world ends. We were all wrong.

 

[DC R1D3R]

They will develop synthetic chocolate before this happens.

yep. GMO choccy bars on the way!

 

[PS3GamerKyle]

What an underrated post.

I lold.

Spoiler

Presuming that the joke was that Hershey's makes their chocolate out of plastic, since that's what it tastes like at least.

Thanks guys <3

 

[Reversed]

After all, choco coins will have value.

 

[Lasthope106]

What a shitty article. No. The world will not run out of chocolate, it will just be a hell of a lot more expensive since the demand will be higher. Also, that last quote is hilarious:

If you plant a cocoa plant you get cocoa beans in four years, which means the farmers are waiting four years for a profit so obviously they think 'What is the point?'" said Kennedy.

Well, WTF geniuses, start fucking planting more plants. We are still 6+ years away.

 

[jadedm17]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31g0YE61PLQ

 

[carlo6529]

WTF. This is sorcery.

Camera Angle trick.

 

[Octavion Rex]

In 7 years... Men will need to think of a new way to apologize to there girlfriend's and spouses.

 

[zeitgeist]

Sorry, but it seems like the bigger story here is that rubber comes from plants...

 

[DR4G0NZ0RDx]

I can believe it, but they will come up with a substitute that tastes exactly the same. Just like artificial banana flavoring.

jk that shit is disgusting

 

[nateeasy]

Why not just plant more?

 

[Ace 8095]

I see these experts aren't economists.

 

[spliced]

This article reminds me of when Homer found a $20 bill instead of a peanut. The next article will be"hey wait a minute, if you plant more trees we'll have more chocolate".

 

[tmarques]

Hershey's will continue

Probably, since their "chocolate" has barely any cocoa in it.

 

[Scrooged]

Prices will go up, people/companies will buy less. New companies will spend the money to plant more trees and get more product out in order to make money. Prices will go down again. Basic economics. The headline is making it sound like cocoa is a finite resource like oil.

 

[DukeBobby]

Eh, I'll live.

 

[UrbanRats]

Gonna save a bunch of chocolate, and cash it in in 50 years.

 

[Joco]

Eh I can live without it. But the title is kind of misleading. It's just that demand is going to become harder to meet, not that it will cease to exist.

 

[zomaha]

so many of my favorite desserts have chocolate in them, this would be disastrous

 

[POWERSPHERE]

i thought sorcery was forbidden here on neogaf...wtf>?>??

..how do you get a perfect cut / slope on a bar like that lol

Now don't freak out, but these exist

 

[Mumei]

;_;

I'm not sure how to process this.

 

[Famassu]

Is the weather or soil getting bad for raising cacao? Or are they being stupid enough to build more and more buildings where we can actually grow that stuff.

As with everything, it isn't as simple as ONE thing being the absolute problem. Somewhere the weather is probably getting worse, that (in addition to plantations themselves) is probably causing desertification, other places the plantations are used for different, more profitable stuff, people are eating more chocolate so even if the production of cocoa stayed the same we'd run into problems etc. etc.


And LOL at people denying this as a possibility. This is a manifestation of what could or almost 100% surely WILL become a real problem with food production worldwide, not just with treats like cocoa/chocolate but "actual" food.

 

[Basileus777]

Sorry, but it seems like the bigger story here is that rubber comes from plants...

Most rubber is synthetic, but natural rubber is used for certain types of car tires, hence the demand.

 

[Mariolee]

Nothing good lasts forever.

 

[Alcotholic]

Is this real?
Will we see the end of chocolate in our lifetime?

 

[Lenz44]

Oh good, it's set to happen on my birthday. What a fantastic day that should be.

 

[Skeyser]

at the people calling the gif fake

 

[siddx]

Well hopefully someone will create a cocoa GMO that can help alleviate the problem.

 

[InsanerBrainer]

I'm not ready for the achocolypse. If we run out of chocolate this world might as well be dead.

 

[ObjectiveObserver]

Oh lord no. I live on chocolate. K, so some one needs to do something right about now.

 

[Anticitizen One]

"We need another Earth basically if we carry on at this rate. We are destroying the whole thing. The problem we've got is that much of the space that was used for cocoa plantations is no longer there," Kennedy said.

 

[InfiniteBento]

;_;

I'm not sure how to process this.

Same here.

Desserts will never be the same.

This can't possibly happen.... right? ;^;

 

[R-User!]

We'll see about that.

 

[Drazgul]

Don't you just hate it when other countries start to get their standard of living higher and now we have to share all the good stuff with them.

 

[Poyunch]

Think about it. We will be the last few who will know the wonders of chocolate. After 2020, kids won't be able to comprehend real chocolate.

 

[Famassu]

Same here.

Desserts will never be the same.

This can't possibly happen.... right? ;^;

Of course it can and it probably will. People who are all "lol, just produce more" are being pretty ignorant. The space humanity has for food production is getting smaller by the day so we have to make a choice if we want to either produce actual food or unnecessary stuff like cocoa (& tobacco & coffee), there are more people on this Earth consuming that food, the people who are already on this planet are consuming more of everything (on average) and the poor countries that are producing stuff like cocoa have to shift to other products that are more profitable if they want to have any chance of fighting poverty/feeding themselves. And that's not even taking into account the potentially disastrous effects of climate change to certain regions as well as stuff like pesticide causing unwanted results (i.e. killing whole bee populations, which are one of the most essential parts of the whole ecosystem)

 

[malfcn]

Chocolate Cartel incoming?

 

[hey_monkey]

I love chocolate, but I will sacrifice it if it means people might start paying attention to food production problems.

 

[ElbowRocket]

So if I buy a whole lot of cocoa now I can sell it later and make a killing?

If I can hold out that long mm mmmmmm.

 

[Acorn]

I'm not a huge chocolate fan. So this doesn't bother me.

Now if there was a coffee shortage then we'd have a problem.

 

[Famassu]

I'm not a huge chocolate fan. So this doesn't bother me.

Now if there was a coffee shortage then we'd have a problem.

That's coming too, soon enough.